We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
PAT CONROYMy soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
-
-
The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.
PAT CONROY -
Faulkner didn’t know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it’s necessary
PAT CONROY -
The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
PAT CONROY -
There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
PAT CONROY -
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
PAT CONROY -
One does not know where love will take you.
PAT CONROY -
I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
PAT CONROY -
Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
PAT CONROY -
My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.
PAT CONROY -
My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
PAT CONROY -
It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
PAT CONROY -
South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
PAT CONROY -
There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
PAT CONROY -
I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
PAT CONROY -
It’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky’ is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
PAT CONROY